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Vol. 21 - No. 39
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A LIVE LOOK AT ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK
FUNDS NEEDED FOR NEW IBSP BEACH CAM LIVE STREAM –Photos courtesy Friends of IBSP, The Times and State Parks Dep. The ospreys nesting in Island Beach State Park have starred on the osprey cam live feed, but the Friends of IBSP group is planning some upgrades and asking for donations.
March 5, 2016
The Smell Of Controlled Burns In The Air
By Catherine Galioto OCEAN COUNTY – Hundreds of acres of Double Trouble, Warren Grove, Colliers Mills and other forests have had their underbrush singed by fire, part of the annual prescribed burning programs aiming to prevent larger-scale wildfires. Over February 26 to 29, the Forest Fire Service prescribed burned 5,125 acres across Central and Southern New Jersey, including areas of Barnegat and Stafford in Ocean Count y. B e f o r e that, areas of Double
Trouble in Berkeley and off Route 571 in Jackson saw prescribed burns. This recent week, more bu r n s we r e s che d u le d for Jakes Branch County Park, Beachwood. According to the state Forestry Service, in total this season between 10,000 and 20,000 acres of forests and grasslands will be burned, depending on weather conditions. Febr u a r y 28, t he controlled burning’s smoke could be felt for miles, as Greenwood Wildlife Management Area, (Burns - See Page 5)
Ocean County’s 114 Gangs
By Catherine Galioto ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK – At more than 1.6 million annual visitors, Island Beach State Park is the most visited site in the state park system. But several of its most well-known
visitors fly overhead: the ospreys whose nest has been on-camera at the Friends of the Island Beach State Park website, streaming live. The Friends have some big plans in store for both the osprey and the beach-
going masses in the coming months. Angelo Sica, president of the Friends of IBSP, shared what some of those projects are: a new camera for the popular osprey cam, a live camera of beach conditions, up-
grades to some facilities and offices, and additional programs and fundraisers. Viewing the osprey’s return to the park – along with their nesting and mating and seeing the family of (Beach - See Page 4)
Ice Hockey Still On Fire After Decades Of Growth By Chris Christopher The name Bob Auriemma Sr. is synonymous with New Jersey ice hockey. The legendary Brick Township High School coach has seen it all – beginning with the birth of the Green Dragons’ program in the 1960s. Warren Wolf, who retired a few years back as the state’s career wins leader in football, founded the ice hockey program in the early 1960s. He became Brick’s assistant
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superintendent of schools, allowing Auriemma Sr. to take over in 1963-64. “Coach Wolf began the program at the recreational level,” Auriemma Sr. recalled in a telephone interview while shoveling snow. “He got a bunch of boys together and they used old Brick football jerseys for their games.” Auriemma Sr. said the Green Dragons’ varsity team often traveled long distances to play games.
With the
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By Judy Smestad-Nunn Training School for Boys, a OCEAN COUNTY – New juvenile detention facility loJersey has some 1,500 dif- cated in Monroe Township. ferent gangs, and Ocean “I noticed after a few County alone has 114, said years that the character of State’s Investigative Agent the kids who came in was and gang expert, Edwin Torres, who recent•RECOGNIZING ly gave an eye-opening •ADDRESSING presentation called “The Gang Wise Project” at •PREVENTING the Toms River Library. The event is a series GANG ACTIVITY the library is hosting at several branches, focusing different--they came in with on recognizing, addressing tattoos on their neck, hands and preventing gang activi- and even their lips, and ty in communities. they used language I hadn’t Torres, 49, started his law heard, and I thought what’s enforcement career 28 years going on?” Torres said beago when he was a Hous- fore his presentation. ing Unit Officer at the NJ (Gangs - See Page 18)
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